Anxiety, fear and panic

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Posted on 06-01-2023 09:07 AM

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There are many different causes of anxiety, fear or panic and it's different for everyone. When you're feeling anxious or scared, your body releases stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. This can be helpful in some situations, but it might also cause physical symptoms such as an increased heart rate and increased sweating. In some people, it might cause a panic attack. Regular anxiety, fear or panic can also be the main symptom of several health conditions. Do not self-diagnose – speak to a gp if you're worried about how you're feeling.

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Things you can try to help with anxiety, fear and panic

Anxiety can affect both your body and mind. The effect on your mind can include: a feeling of dread or fearing the worst feeling on edge or panicky difficulty concentrating feeling detached from yourself or the world around you physical feelings can include: anxiety can also affect your behaviour. You may withdraw from friends and family, feel unable to go to work, or avoid certain places. While avoiding situations can give you short-term relief, the anxiety often returns the next time you’re in the situation. Avoiding it only reinforces the feeling of danger and never gives you a chance to find out whether your fears are true or not.

Phobias are an intense fear of certain situations or objects. Some of these fears may make sense, such as a fear of snakes. But often, the level of fear doesn’t match the situation. Like with other anxiety disorders, you may spend a lot of time trying to avoid situations that may trigger the phobia. A specific phobia, or a simple phobia, is an intense fear of a particular object or situation. It may cause you to avoid everyday situations. Some specific phobias include fear of: animals, such as spiders, dogs or snakes. Blood. Places outside your house. Public transportation. In severe situations, a person with agoraphobia may not leave the house at all.

Where to get NHS help for anxiety, fear and panic

You can check what treatment and care is recommended for anxiety disorders on the national institute for health and care excellence (nice) website: www. Nice. Org. Uk/ nice produce guidelines for how health professionals should treat certain conditions. Nice only provide guidelines for: generalised anxiety disorder (gad) and panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and body dysmorphic disorder (bdd), post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), and social anxiety disorder. The nhs doesn't have to follow these recommendations. But they should have a good reason for not following them. We have described some of the treatments for anxiety disorders below. The treatments you will be offered depend upon the type of anxiety disorder you are experiencing.

Because of evolution, we’re wired to respond to fear by either fight, flight, or freeze. For different people, one of these responses will typically dominate. For instance, my spouse tends to freeze and will bury her head in the sand rather than deal with things that make her feel stressed and panicky. I tend more toward fighting, and will become irritable, excessively perfectionistic, or dogmatic if i feel stressed. When you understand that anxiety is designed to put us into a mode of threat sensitivity, it’s easier to understand someone who is feeling scared (or stressed) and acting out by being irritable or defensive, and to find compassion for them.

Everyone feels anxious from time to time. It is caused by the fear or thought that something bad is about to happen. When a person feels anxious they may also have physical changes, such as higher blood pressure, heart rate and sweating. For most people feeling anxious will pass quickly when they no longer sense any danger. However, a person with anxiety can find it very difficult to stop thinking and feeling that something bad is about to happen. Anxiety is the main symptom of a number of mental health conditions. These include generalised anxiety disorder (gad), panic attacks and phobias.

Phobias involving a person’s fear or anxiety being triggered by a particular situation or object, eg dogs, flying, clowns or injections. An estimated 10 million people in the uk have phobias. Simple phobias, such as a fear of heights or spiders, usually start during childhood, whereas complex phobias tend to start later in life. For instance, social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder) often begins during puberty, and is associated with intense fear or worry in social situations – including before or after a social event has happened. Agoraphobia, meanwhile, tends to first strike in a person’s late teens to early 20s, although complex phobias may continue for many years.

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